DECALS, 50' TOFC FLAT CARS 60060 to 60076

These decals are for TOFC flat cars 60060 to 60076. They are part of the TOFC flat car series that ultimately expanded to include cars GN 60060 to 60344 all of which were 53’ 6” long over the sills built by Pacific Car and Foundry (PC&F) in 1954 as plain flat cars 65500 to 65599 and 65600 to 65699. Cars 60060 to 60076, were converted to Trailer on Flat Car service by adding tie down equipment and rub rails attached to the original stake pockets in 1954.  There is some evidence that cars 60060 to 60076 came from PC&F in 1954 set up for TOFC service. Capacity of PC&F cars was 100,000 pounds. All were equipped with friction bearing trucks and were set up to handle two 24 foot single axle trailers or one dual axle 40 foot trailer. The good thing about these cars is that they were a low cost, low risk way to enter the TOFC business. The bad thing was that the tare weight was very high for the carrying capacity. As of July 1, 1956 the nominal 50 foot cars were: 60045 to 60057 52-